Box construction.



No. 820,417. PATENTED MAY 15, 1906.

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BOX CONSTRUCTION.

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CHRISTIAN A. HERB,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF OSBORN, OHIO.

BOX CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.-

Applieation filed April 21, 1905. Serial No. 256,739.

in which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of boxes adapted tobe used as mailing-receptacles.

It has for its object to produce a device of this character which willbe very strong in construction and which will at the same time be verylight in weight; and it consists, essen tially, of a wooden frameworkaround pasteboard or paper sides.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and alsoto acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means foreffecting the result reference is to be had to the following descriptionand ac companying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view ofthe boX. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 3 is a longitudinalsectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one of the ends.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the sameboX construction, and more particularly to The boX, as shown in thedrawings, is of j rectangular form and comprises two end panels 1, twoside panels 2, and top and bottom panels 3, each of said panels beingprovided with reinforcing-frames and being arframes and the frames being1 arranged with respect to each other in the manner to be now described.The panels are all constructed of pasteboard or other similar lightmaterial, and the frames are preferably constructed of wood and are soarranged with respect to each other that the pasteboard panels areentirely protected and covered up at every edge. The frame for the endpanels 1 is designated 4, that for the side panels 2 is designated 5,and the ones for the top and bottom panels 3 designated 6. The endframes 4 are, as shown in Fig. 4, provided with rabbeted portions 4around their entire margins, and the end panels 1 are secured to theprojecting rectangular portion produced by said rabbet with their ed esflush with the edge of the rabbet. The ames 5 for the side panel arealso provided with rabbeted 1 portions 5*, and the side panels 2 arelike the end panels 1, secured to said rabbeted portions with theiredges flush with the edges of the latter. The top and bottom frames forthe panels 3 are not rabbeted at all and the end edges of the panels 3lie flush with the end edges of the frames, while the side edges of saidpanels terminate short of the adjacent edges of the frames, at shown at6*.

When the parts of the boX are secured together, as best seen in Figs. 2and 3, the top and bottom frames 6 rest flush at their side edges withthe edges of the side frame 5 and their end edges rest within therabbeted portions 4 of the end frames 4. The side frames 5 also restwith their end edges in the rabbeted portions 4 of the end frames 4. andthe side edges of the panels 3 overlap the panels 2 and fit within therabbeted portions 5 of the end frames 5. It will thus be seen that whilethe pasteboard panels 1, 2, and 3 form tight joints with each other byreason of their overlapping edges, the end edges and side edges of thetop and bottompanels projecting beyond the edges of the end panels andside panels, as shown, yet the rabbeted construction of the box-frames,especially the rabbet 5 receiving the end 6 of the top and bottom panelsand the latter coming through to the outer edges of the frames, all ofthe pasteboard edges will be covered up and protected, which would notbe the case if the pasteboard panels projected flush with the outersurface of the frames to which they are attached. The top and bottomframes are preferably braced, as shown at 7.

, Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A boXfor the purpose described comprising end frames 4 rabbeted on all fouredges, a panel of pasteboard or the like secured to the rabbetedportions with its edges flush therewith, Side frames 5 provided with topand bottom rabbets, similar panels 2 secured thereto with their edgesflush with the rab- I00 beted portions, and with their ends fittingwithin the rabbeted portions of the end frames 4, and top and bottomframes 6 fit ted within the rabbeted portions of the end frames 4 andlying flush with the outer edges 105 of the side frames 5, and top andbottom panels 3 attached to said top and bottom frames 6, the end edgesof said top and bot tom panels lying flush with the edges of the framesand the side edges of the said top and I 10 bottom panels terminatingshort of the side edges of their frames, and lying within the top andbottom rabbets of the frames 5,

whereby all of the panels will form overlap- 5 ping joints with eachother and be entirely covered at their edges by the frameworkconstitnted by the respective frames.

In testimony whereof I aflix signature Witnesses:

JOHN MGMULLEN, SIMON H. WOLF.

